Dodd graduated from North Harris County Junior College in Houston with a degree in nursing. She worked as a charge nurse at Tomball Hospital. She also was employed at the Memphis Convalescent Center and the Memphis Hospital. She loved animals, especially cats, according to the Agape Funeral Chapel and Cremations website, www.meaningfulfunerals.net.

She is survived by her son, Willard Wade Dodd, of Colorado Springs, Colo.; daughter, Kari Wynn Dodd Willis of Lubbock, Texas; granddaughters of Lubbock, Austin and East Texas; and numerous loving cousins in Memphis.